Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 105

I fear I have done but little for you."

Who acts: I · What happens: fear, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fear	nsubj
2	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 fear	ccomp
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 little	cc
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 done	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 done	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fear	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	present	I						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	present · perfect	I					for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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